US plane makers teaming with Chinese firms
Monday, July 16, 2012 - 02:00
in Earth & Climate
(AP) Walter Beech was one of America's greatest aviation pioneers, a former World War I flyer who spent three years after the war touring the country as a barnstorming exhibition pilot. That experience spawned ideas for aircraft design, inspiration that came to fruition in 1932 when he and his wife founded Beech Aircraft Co.